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  • Re-Envisioning EFL Education in Asia
    John Adamson / Steven Herder / Theron Muller
    Re-Envisioning EFL Education in Asia is a ground-breaking collaboration that explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching and learning in Asia.In this third book by our editorial team with teachers and researchers who live and work across the region, Asia comes into its own as a vibrant center of language teaching pedagogy and research through chapters that address con...
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    22,46 €

  • On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language
    Xiaobo Dong / Yafang Zhang
    By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book presents a groundbreaking approach to the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language, unveils the underlying causes and adverse effects thereof, and provides potential principles, strategies, and methods to be fol...
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    157,65 €

  • On the Standardization of Chinese Legislative Language
    Xiaobo Dong / Yafang Zhang
    By integrating different research angles and methods of philosophy of law, sociology of law, applied linguistics, and legal translation, this book presents a groundbreaking approach to the non-standardization phenomenon in Chinese legislative language, unveils the underlying causes and adverse effects thereof, and provides potential principles, strategies, and methods to be fol...
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    48,34 €

  • Language and Nationality
    Pietro Bortone
    What role does language play in the formation and perpetuation of our ideas about nationality and other social categories? And what role does it play in the formation and perpetuation of nations themselves, and of other human groups? Language and Nationalityconsiders these questions and examines the consequences of the notion that a language and a nationality are intrinsically ...
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    50,99 €

  • Re-Envisioning EFL Education in Asia
    John Admanson / Steven Herder / Theron Muller
    Re-Envisioning EFL Education in Asia is a ground-breaking collaboration that explores the challenges and opportunities of teaching and learning in Asia. In this third book by our editorial team with teachers and researchers who live and work across the region, Asia comes into its own as a vibrant center of language teaching pedagogy and research through chapters that address co...
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    21,51 €

  • The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Prescriptivism
    This handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism. ...
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    334,37 €

  • Swahili in Spaces of War
    Alamin Mazrui / Kimani Njogu
    This monograph examines the roles and functions of Swahili in war/conflict situations, and the impact of wars on the destiny of the language. Covering a period of over a century, the monograph explores this sociolinguistic theme in the context of six wars/conflicts: the Maji Maji resistance against German rule, the two World Wars, the anti-colonial resistance to British colonia...
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    48,22 €

  • All English Accents Matter
    Pierre Wilbert Orelus
    Orelus’ valuable study draws on the scholarly work of sociocultural and postcolonial theorists, as well as testimonies collected from study participants, to explore accentism, the systemic form of discrimination against speakers whose accents deviate from a socially constructed norm. ...
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    81,96 €

  • Beyond Borrowing
    Danica Salazar / Hyejeong Ahn / Jieun Kiaer
    In their book, the authors describe the usage of and attitudes towards English in Asia since the 19th century, as well as the creative and dynamic ways in which Asians of the 21st century continually reinvent the lexicon of English, and the lexicons of their native tongues. ...
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    214,13 €

  • Multimodal Chinese Discourse
    Dezheng (William) Feng
    Feng helps readers to understand communication and society in contemporary China through systematic analysis of multimodal discourse at the national, institutional and individual levels. ...
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    213,95 €

  • Emergency Communication
    Giolo Fele
    This book explores communication in emergency call and response centers, taking an approach drawn from Conversation Analysis to examine how call-takers answer calls and the ways in which dispatch is issued in different contexts. It offers an original contribution to the study of the organization of emergency calls, the ways such calls are treated, and some of the practical prob...
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    48,30 €

  • From Fritzl to #metoo
    Alessia Tranchese
    This is the first longitudinal study of the language used by the British press to talk about rape. Through a diachronic analysis informed by corpus linguistics and feminist theory, Tranchese examines how rape discourse has (or has not) changed over the past decade. With its detailed investigation of media representations, the book explores how age-old myths about sexual violenc...
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    159,72 €

  • Understanding Linguistic Prejudice
    This book discusses linguistic diversity, linguistic prejudice, and language variation and change from a Global South perspective by analyzing Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. It brings together studies and reflections on linguistic prejudice and social discrimination based on data and examples from Brazil and aim...
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    48,16 €

  • Understanding Linguistic Prejudice
    This book discusses linguistic diversity, linguistic prejudice, and language variation and change from a Global South perspective by analyzing Brazilian Portuguese, Brazilian Sign Language (LIBRAS) and indigenous languages spoken in Brazil. It brings together studies and reflections on linguistic prejudice and social discrimination based on data and examples from Brazil and aim...
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    171,58 €

  • Voice, Agency and Resistance
    Mark Nartey
    Drawing on data from Africa, Latin America, North America, and Arab Levant, this book demonstrates how members of marginalized (disempowered) groups sculpt a positive image for themselves, engage in solidarity formation for group empowerment and (re)construct their experiences in a manner that gives them voice, agency and positive identity. ...
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    216,83 €

  • Neoliberalization of English Language Policy in the Global South
    This book investigates different ways in which neoliberal language and teaching policies have influenced the English language in global south countries across Asia, Africa and Latin America. Through the three main sub themes covered by the book, namely Neoliberalism and English Language Teaching Policies, Neoliberalism Ideology as in English Language Teaching Materials, and Exp...
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    197,56 €

  • Language and Institutional Identity in the Post-Apartheid South African Higher Education
    Leketi Makalela
    This book examines the intersections between education, identity formation, and language in post-apartheid South Africa with specific attention to higher education. It does so against the backdrop of the core argument that the sector plays a critical role in shaping, (re)producing and perpetuating sectoral, class, sub-national and national identities, which in turn, in the pecu...
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    195,94 €

  • Enhancing Student Support in Higher Education
    Kendall Richards / Nick Pilcher
    This book is about supporting students in Higher Education using language, and specifically using a combination of written text based linguistic approaches alongside and with other non-text related languages. The authors call this a beyond-text subject based approach and argue that this can more effectively help students. The book first outlines and describes a ’paradigm of lin...
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    159,11 €

  • Language, Society and Power
    Annabelle Mooney / Betsy Evans
    Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society, and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class, and gender. Readers are encouraged to consider whether representations of people and their language matter, explo...
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    57,58 €

  • Language, Society and Power
    Annabelle Mooney / Betsy Evans
    Language, Society and Power provides an accessible introduction to the study of language in a variety of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the way we view society and how it varies according to age, ethnicity, class and gender. ...
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    213,65 €

  • Language and Sustainable Development
    This book addresses the importance of language in matters of sustainability and incorporating such concerns in implementing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Sustainable language policy must aim to include all groups, including language minorities and marginalized populations, such as refugees and aid recipients, in conditions that allow for their inclusion in maki...
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    48,21 €

  • An Uncommon Tongue
    Walter Nash
    First published in 1991, An Uncommon Tongue explores the theme of usage in its widest sense: usage as what we say or write; usage as a social question; usage as a literary convention; usage and creativity. ...
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    57,08 €

  • Language as a Social Determinant of Health
    Federico Marco Federici
    This edited volume demonstrates the fundamental role translation and interpreting play in multilingual crises. During the COVID-19 pandemic, limited language proficiency of the main language(s) in which information is disseminated exposed people to additional risks, and the contributors analyse risk communication plans and strategies used throughout the world to communicate mea...
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    195,06 €

  • Language, Expressivity and Cognition
    Providing an up-to-date, multi-perspective and cross-linguistic account of the centrality of the expressive function in communication, this book explores the conceptualization of emotions in language and the high emotional ’temperature’ of a variety of contemporary discourses.Adopting a number of methodological angles, both qualitative and quantitative, the chapters present ins...
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    167,33 €

  • The End of the Circus
    Paul Bouissac
    This book analyses two features of the traditional circus that have come under increasing attack since the mid-20th century: the use of wild animals in performance and the act of clowning. Positioning this socio-cultural change within the broader perspective of evolutionary semiotics, renowned circus expert Paul Bouissac examines the decline of the traditional circus and its tr...
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    51,00 €

  • Multilingualism in Public Spaces
    Deirdre A. Dunlevy
    Advocates of multilingualism are always seeking new ways to articulate the advantages inherent in living out life in more than one language. This volume brings together researchers from across Europe to explore sociolinguistic perspectives on multilingualism, with specific emphasis on identity, diversity, and social cohesion, as they focus explicitly on the potential of this ph...
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    50,99 €

  • Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi
    Ruth Singer
    This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. ...
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    215,79 €

  • Indigenous Multilingualism at Warruwi
    Ruth Singer
    This book is an exploration of the role of language at Warruwi Community, a remote Indigenous settlement in northern Australia. It explores how language use and people’s ideas about language are embedded in contemporary Indigenous life there. ...
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    66,99 €

  • Language Policies and the Politics of Language Practices
    This edited volume consists of chapters celebrating the career of scholar Sjaak Kroon, who has produced ground-breaking work in the field of ethnography of education, immigrant minority language teaching and language politics. The chapters cover the use of immigrant minority languages in education and the development of policies at all levels and across the globe in this someti...
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    172,75 €

  • Interface between English Language Education Policies and Practice
    This book is about the policy-practice praxis in English language education, and draws on research from a diverse range of under-explored international settings to showcase the importance of contextual realities on how policy and practice interact. The case studies covered in the volume come from five continents (Africa, Europe, Asia, and South and North America) and cover 11 c...
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    47,90 €


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